{"id":2453,"date":"2014-09-19T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2016-10-20T21:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T01:55:06","slug":"xtra-bobby-russell-fights-dismissal-of-his-kentucky-lawsuit-still-contests-his-hiv-test-results-and-you-can-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/xtra-bobby-russell-fights-dismissal-of-his-kentucky-lawsuit-still-contests-his-hiv-test-results-and-you-can-too\/","title":{"rendered":"XTRA: Bobby Russell Fights Dismissal of His Kentucky Lawsuit, Still Contests His ‘HIV Test’ Results — and You Can, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>URGENT! You can make a difference. . . . Bobby Russell,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prn.fm\/infectious-myth-bobby-russells-false-positive-hiv-diagnosis-10-years-hell-091614\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently interviewed<\/a> [Update, October 2016: the new link is <a href=\"http:\/\/infectiousmyth.podbean.com\/e\/the-infectious-myth-bobby-russells-false-positive-hiv-diagnosis-%E2%80%93-10-years-of-hell-091614\/\">HERE<\/a>] by “How Positive Are You” co-host David Crowe on his “The Infectious Myth” show, is raising\u00a0funds to appeal the September 15, 2014,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtvq.com\/content\/localnews\/story\/Judge-Too-Late-to-Sue-for-Misdiagnosis-of-HIV\/EqwNO4g1w0e2KRbHJTpR4A.cspx#.VBd5ChOrRVZ.facebook.\" target=\"_blank\">dismissal on summary judgment<\/a> of his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omsj.org\/corruption\/russell26aug\" target=\"_blank\">medical malpractice suit <\/a>against the University of Kentucky Medical Center and doctors. This system has\u00a0an effective monopoly on “HIV\/AIDS” testing and treatment in eastern\u00a0Kentucky but no accountability to patients on how\u00a0reliable\u00a0those tests are. They\u00a0misdiagnosed Bobby as “HIV positive” for eight years. He needs to raise $9,000 by September 29 toward\u00a0a total of $25,000 by the end of the year, and has set up an online fundraising appeal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/axwthk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0Please give what you can. [<strong>Note, October 22, 2014:\u00a0The new deadline to file a Notice of Appeal is\u00a0<em>October 29. <\/em>The amount\u00a0of money Bobby needs\u00a0changes daily, but we hope that you will still consider giving to Bobby’s legal fund. Bobby has also created a Web site to “<a href=\"http:\/\/bobbyrussell2005.wix.com\/protestthetest\" target=\"_blank\">Protest the Test<\/a>,” where you can learn more and become part of this historic effort to challenge careless HIV testing.<\/strong>]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We hope you will agree that this lawsuit is important. Basically, Kentucky says that persons with “HIV-positive” test results (explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2008\/10\/18\/hpay-006\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 6<\/a> and again in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/04\/23\/hpay082-30th_anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 82<\/a>) must contest\u00a0these results within a year,\u00a0<em>even if<\/em>\u00a0doctors and other clinicians tell them that they are “in denial” and must be referred for psychiatric evaluation for even\u00a0<em>thinking\u00a0<\/em>the results might be contestable.<\/p>\n<p>Until this Kafka-esque decision is overturned, we advise\u00a0you, no matter what state or country you live in, to <i>document your “diagnosis”<\/i>\u00a0by using\u00a0the services of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omsj.org\/operation-letterhead\" target=\"_blank\">licensed investigative agency<\/a> or following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omsj.org\/blogs\/untangling-hivs-scarlet-letter\" target=\"_blank\">do-it-yourself letter-writing instructions<\/a>\u00a0(see “Creating a Paper Trail”) without delay. Even if you do not find a way to erase\u00a0your HIV status\u00a0from state databases now, you\u00a0will have done the legwork. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>We plan\u00a0to put Bobby, and possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2013\/10\/31\/hpay071-attorney-jonathan-dailey\/\" target=\"_blank\">his lawyer<\/a>, on HPAY\u00a0again in the next few days. The case\u00a0was previously\u00a0featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/2014\/01\/16\/hpay076-bobbyrussell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 76<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>Bobby Russell filed his Notice of Appeal on October 29, 2014, the deadline for commencing an appeal on the dismissal on summary judgment. Contrary to rumors that the case was dismissed on the merits, it remains appealable on Statute of Limitations grounds (timely filing of a lawsuit after finding wrongdoing), and is being appealed with assistance of counsel. Thanks to all those who contributed to Bobby’s GoFundMe campaign. Bobby still needs money to keep this process going forward, so please give what you can by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/axwthk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URGENT! You can make a difference. . . . Bobby Russell,\u00a0recently interviewed [Update, October 2016: the new link is HERE] by “How Positive Are You” co-host David Crowe on his “The Infectious Myth” show, is raising\u00a0funds to appeal the September 15, 2014,\u00a0dismissal on summary judgment of his\u00a0medical malpractice suit against the University of Kentucky Medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,7,1],"tags":[31,721,121,12,16,722,289,339,765,584,11,766,98,85,409,838,14,13],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonus-podcast","category-hpay-podcast","category-uncategorized","tag-aids-diagnosis","tag-bobby-russell","tag-david-crowe","tag-elisa","tag-false-positive","tag-false-positive-hiv-diagnosis","tag-gay-men","tag-hiv-diagnosis","tag-hiv-lawsuit","tag-hiv-legal-cases","tag-hiv-testing","tag-hiv-testing-lawsuit","tag-hiv-tests","tag-hiv-positive","tag-omsj","tag-university-of-kentucky","tag-viral-load","tag-western-blot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howpositiveareyou.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}